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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Fraud email example:

From: "Dr. Ken Mok" <mr.ken_mok@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 04:07:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Invitation-by- a Friend: 48-HOURS TO DELIVER :

Re: Invitation-by- a Friend: 48-HOURS TO DELIVER :

THIS IS A PERSONAL LETTER TO YOU:
NOTE: If you can handle the process explained below, I will send you $10,000.00 (Ten Thousand-USD) first "trial" experiment-Specimen for confirmation before we proceed on this establishment. To optimize security between you and me: Your only required participation for this project is to accept to, "apply to register as a foreign partner" "which cost almost nothing". If you register, we shall have the below listed advantages, which will make our project absolutely free of risk.


a)IF YOU REGISTER AS PARTNER- AGENT WITH THE DELIVERY SERVICE: No delay will occur in this delivery while on transit to your address, no be -re-inspected in your Country international Airport or any point of entry - because an official stamp will be paced on it for modification.in-scripted "inspected and verified).



(b) IF YOU REGISTER AS PARTNER- AGENT WITH THE DELIVERY SERVICE: Your identity will not be exposed on each delivery as the actual recipient of any parcels because your ability to register will make you an official Agent, whose work is to "receive and distribute." By this means you can receive several parcels in different names and formats and that will make the fund delivery faster and easier..


(c) IF YOU REGISTER AS PARTNER- AGENT WITH THE DELIVERY SERVICE: if by any chance delivery is held or confiscated while on its way to your address, you will be FREE from blames of breaking the laws, for all problems will be linked to the shipper and origin. This process will yeild untraceable weekly delivery to your address, a process which shall bypass all security measures.


Let me now introduce myself: I am Bob Wolsey, I am a politician of repute who has the desire to invest in Hotel and Tourism in your Country but due to my political position here - i will also like to keep this transaction very low and confidential between me and you. (I will send you the architectural Plans of the project upon your positive response. Listen to the statements below: .


THE PROCESS Due to much restriction on huge Oversea Funds Transfer, we have devised another means to get this Fund over to your address through what is called "Secure delivery-means" handled by Trusted Courier Services. It is a situation whereby all required expenses to get the fund over to you shall be taken care of by us," Once you can ONLY take care of your side whereby you are required to register as a partner Agent with the Courier ("registration is done once"). By Secured delivery measure, you can receive up to $300,000.00 (Three Hundred thousand USD) weekly. This measure is tested and trusted to checkmate of all security protocols and to avoid the interference of any third party. This experiment was conducted by a Chinese scientist and it has been confirmed 100%- okay, once you adhere to the rules.


THE EXPERIMENT: In secure fund delivery; funds delivered are secured in such a process that no security Agents or Scanning Machine can dictate the content of the parcels a because the funds are defaced with some chemical combination. NOTE THIS CODE: You only need water and liquid detergent to perform 20 seconds experiments to bring the defaced funds to normal. $10,000.00 will be sent to you for experiment once you register. In a clean basin, add the defaced $300,000.00 in water-detergent solution to get pure United States bills recovered within 20- Seconds. Listen, the defaced money does not means that the money has changed from its original states to fake states. We defaced just to bypass security operative from dictating the content of the parcels as containing money. If you adhere, I will send up to $10M to you for the Tourism PROJECT, to enable you get about 30-hecters of Land and to commence the construction of a 5-star Hotel in your State.


THE CONFIRMATION:-After the experiment and you have the new minted-money, maybe $100 bill in your hands, go to any Bank of your choice to confirm the new note you have in hands. I need promise from you that you shall be committed to getting this
experiment right and perfect, I shall send the first-trial specimen of $10,000.00, just send the following after registering as partner:


(1) Complete Name, (2) Address, {Country, State, City and Zip Code}, (3) and Phone number,

Try to keep 100% sealed-lips on this project.


Thanks,
Mr. Ken Mok

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